Sunday, June 15, 2014

With five wins in their last seven games, the Dodgers have closed the division lead gap to 6.5 games, the lowest it has been all month. Do we wanna be startin' somethin'? Because, holy mullets, Bronson Arroyo is today's opposing starter! Arroyo is 5-5 with a 3.75 ERA lifetime against the Dodgers, and though he's run rings around us before, the Dodgers' recent resurgence (including yesterday's impressive come-from-behind victory) means we will likely continue a fine Dodger tradition this afternoon and start scribbling all over ol' Saturn Nuts at the Stadium.

The Dodgers are 10-3 against the Diamondbacks this season. Let's keep this rolling, ladies and gents!

this team was all kinds of right place at the wrong time can't get out of the way of their 2 left feet all thumbs momentum killing frustrating asshole fuckwads today. They were good enough at times to make me think they could win but would fuck up in the most assinine ways to make me want to throw my computer out the window

@Dusty 2-1 DBags in the 7th, Montero on first with an infield single with one out. Hill hits a single to Kemp who takes his time to get the ball and get it back in assuming Montero will just stay at second. Montero sees this, tries for third and makes it, Hill goes to second on the throw. The infield is now in with less than 2 outs and Dee gags on a chopper that looked very playable and 2 runs score.

Of course if Dee makes his play, maybe it's a different inning and Kemp is off the hook, but it's just another example of Kemp's lazy/disinterested/unfocused play that got him bumped to left.

Of course as soon as the Az lead is extended, we mount a rally and score the run that would have tied it if we hadn't given up those 2 runs. But we never would have had the rally if we were only down 1

To be fair, that seventh inning was full of gags. Gonzo went for an ungettable ball and left first unoccupied when Beckett brainfucked and didn't cover first. Then after kemp's lackadaisical attitude in left, dee totally screwed the pooch on defense to let two runs score.

@Saxy I agree on the quantity and quality of the fuckups, plus Butera overrunning third, all of the GIDPs and Perez existing. Kemp isn't wholly to blame. I am just sad that Kemp's play hasn't changed despite a fairly clear message that it needs to. Maybe it wasn't that clear to him (as CC has suggested) but he has to know that stuff isn't acceptable